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Book SynopsisThe last collection of short stories published in her lifetime, The Garden Party and Other Stories would solidify Katherine Mansfield's place as the most prominent modernist short story writer of her generation.

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Book Synopsis''They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden party if they had ordered it''A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour''s demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the entire celebration.The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers'' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

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Book SynopsisWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHKatherine Mansfield''s clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they range from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes Bliss, The Garden Party and In a German Pension, and fifteen tantalizing fragments of unfinished stories published after her tragic death, including ''Honesty'', an intriguing tale of two bachelors, and ''The Doves'' Nest'', an exquisite story of a widowed mother and her daughter in the Riviera who receive a mysterious gentleman caller. Graceful, delicate and quietly devastating, they observe apparently trivial incidents to create sensitive, often painful revelations of her characters'' inner lives.

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Book SynopsisKatherine Mansfield had a career-long engagement with the literary marketplace from the age of eighteen. This book examines how she developed as a writer within a range of book and periodical publishing contexts, reconsidering her writing's enactment of a commercially viable modern aesthetic in her experimentation with the short story form.Trade Review'This important new study on Katherine Mansfield, although of interest to the widely-read Mansfield scholar, will also have broad appeal to the non-specialist, offering an excellent introduction aided by its chronological ordering to Mansfield's life and short story output.' - Gerri Kimber, Associate Lecturer, Open University, UK 'An important contribution to modernist periodical studies and Mansfield studies, this book breaks new ground in its comprehensive analysis of Mansfield's career as a professional writer' - Lee Garver, Modernism/Modernity '..an engaging book for both modernist studies and the deservedly growing field of Mansfield studies it offers new material and fresh thematic lenses through which to challenge and refine critical trajectories within this dynamic field' -Alice Staveley, The Review of English Studies '...a fine, sensible and sensitive book that, like its subject, will be essential reading for scholars of modernism but also an engaging account for general readers' - Angela Smith, Journal of New Zealand Literature '...an important contribution not only to Mansfield studies but also to modernist studies more generally' - Carey Snyder, Journal of Modern Periodical Studies '...shrewd in documenting Mansfield's involvement with and contributions to periodicals' - Aaron Jaffe, The Year's Work in English Studies '...a fine example of how a single-author study can put the expanded accessibility of modernist periodicals and little magazines to good use' - Alissa G. Karl, Katherine Mansfield StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: 'Principles as light as my purse' 'Too sharply modelled': Mansfield and the New Age 1910-1911 'An editorial dogfight': Murry, Rhythm and the Blue Review 1912-1913 'A sort of authority': from Signature to the Hogarth Press 1915-1918 'A writer first': Je ne parle pas français, the Athenaeum, and Bliss 1919-1920 'At the mercy of the public': the London Mercury, the Sphere and The Garden Party 1921-1922 Afterword: 'Boiling Katherine's Bones' Notes Appendix: Major periodical publications (1910-1922) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis selection of stories by Katherine Mansfield has been chosen by Claire Tomalin and emphasize the stronger, feminist side of her writing rather than the popular, more sentimental view. The 21 stories are presented in chronological order and include "Prelude", "The Garden Party" and "At the Bay".

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Book SynopsisWhen her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their working-class neighbours, this burgeoning sense of class consciousness is heightened by a realization of her own mortality. Published in 1922, at the height of literary Modernism, `The Garden Party' is now considered one of the key texts of that movement. This volume, which also includes all of Katherine Mansfi eld's other published short stories, is an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to discover one of the early twentieth century's finest writers.Trade ReviewIt is necessary to read no more than two or three of Miss Mansfield's stories before discovering that she has great talent. And after reading all of them, including her first volume, Bliss, there is no doubt at all that this talent amounts to the rare thing which a lack of a juster word to express our enthusiasms we call genius, and that her name must be added to that small company of the living... who really have something to say, and can say it uncommonly well. -- Robert Littell * New Republic * I was jealous of her writing - the only writing I have ever been jealous of. -- Virginia WoolfTable of ContentsContains: Prelude, Je ne parle pas français, Bliss, The Wind Blows, Psychology, Pictures, The Man without a Temperament, Mr Reginald Peacock's Day, Sun and Moon, Feuille d'album, A Dill Pickle, The Little Governess, Revelations, The Escape, The Garden Party, The Daughters of the Late Colonel, The Doll's House, The Fly, Germans at Meat, The Baron, The Sister of the Baroness, Frau Fischer, Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding, The Modern Soul, At Lehmann's, The Luftbad, A Birthday, The Child-Who-Was-Tired, The Advanced Lady, The Swing of the Pendulum, A Blaze.

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Book SynopsisInnovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the serie

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Book SynopsisRadical, witty and inventive, Katherine Mansfield is one of the twentieth century’s most accomplished short-story writers and this selection of stories showcases her dazzling skill. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Prelude & Other Stories is edited and introduced by Professor Meg Jensen.This selection of stories by Katherine Mansfield showcases her remarkable ability to delve into the human mind; in stories such as ‘The Garden Party’ she reveals the tension between innocence and corruption, the dark side of love and romance are explored in ‘Bliss’ and ‘Love à la Mode’, and in the title story, ‘Prelude’, inspired by her own childhood, her concern is for the isolated and the lonely. Collected together for the first time, this selection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield showcase her remarkable ability to delve deep into human psychology.Trade ReviewHer writing was as impenetrable as she was: romantic, excitable, sharp-edged, malicious and cold, charming and funny, lonely, proud, vulnerable, a wearer of masks * Guardian *Mansfield’s work displays a quick, sardonic wit that sharply interrogates romantic concepts of genius and ironizes naïve expectation * The Paris Review *

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Book SynopsisAlthough Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Her characters are passionate men and women swaddled in English reserve -- and sometimes briefly breaking through. And her genius is to pinpoint those unacknowledged and almost imperceptible moments in which those people's relationships -- with one another and themselves -- change forever. This collection includes such masterpieces as Prelude, At the Bay Bliss, The Man Without a Temperament and The Garden Party and has a new introduction by Jeffrey Meyers.

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Book SynopsisIntroducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world''s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Katherine Mansfield''s perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. Graceful, delicate and burning with emotion, Mansfield''s stories were integral in shaping the Modernist movement and redefined a genre. This collection contains some of Mansfield''s most celebrated stories, including ''Bliss'', ''The Garden Party'' and ''The Daughters of the Late Colonel''.''The only writing I have ever been jealous of.'' - Virginia Woolf

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Book SynopsisConcert of Voices combines poetry, fiction, drama, and essays in an anthology of world literature in English. This second edition preserves the first edition’s breadth and its balance of established and less widely known authors, while including a large selection of exciting new material. Biographical information and explanatory notes have been updated and expanded, and new pieces by Cyril Dabydeen, Vikram Seth, Wole Soyinka, Pauline Johnson, Rudy Wiebe, and many other authors have been added.Trade Review“A significant improvement to the original 1995 edition, the updated and expanded version of Victor J. Ramraj’s Concert of Voices remains my favorite collection of this kind. Few critics have a better grasp of the vast and quickly evolving field for whose mapping—Ramraj was so right in the introduction to the first edition and is even more right today—‘postcolonial’ and the concepts and paradigms usually swirling around it have become largely insufficient. Concert of Voices is no longer an ‘alternative’ to other volumes of this sort but the anthology of world writing in English for the global-age, transnational, twenty-first century. Comprehensive, eminently teachable, and a great pedagogical resource overall, the volume really lives up to its title.” — Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro“This second edition takes the most classroom-friendly anthology of world writing in English and makes it even more so by adding more essays and memoirs, extending biographical notes and explanatory footnotes, and underscoring familiar postcolonial themes such as in-betweenness, writing back, and mimicry. A good blend of human commonalities and, in Northrop Frye’s words, ‘loyalty to one’s place in the class structure,’ this book is vital for contemporary literature studies.” — John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University; editor of Postcolonial, Queer: Theoretical Intersections (SUNY Press)“Concert of Voices is an impressively varied selection of first-rate writing from around the colonized and postcolonial world. Encouraging readers to see the shared commonalities of human experience across diverse literary and cultural traditions—from Maori to Guyanese, Nigerian to Sri Lankan—Victor J. Ramraj deftly juxtaposes works on similar themes and suggests rewarding comparative analyses. This concert features the frisson of dissonance as well as the pleasures of harmony; it will get students tuning in to the voices of the world and wanting to hear more.” — John Clement Ball, University of New BrunswickTable of ContentsChinua Achebe (Nigeria) Girls at War (story)Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana) No Sweetness Here (story)Meena Alexander (India-USA) Port Sudan (poem)Agha Shahid Ali (India-USA) Snowmen (poem)Lillian Allen (Jamaica-Canada) Rub A Dub Style Inna Regent Park (poem)Mulk Raj Anand (India) Duty (story) Jean Arasanayagam (Sri Lanka) I Have No Country (poem) Louise Bennett (Jamaica) Anancy an Ticks (folk tale) Neil Bissoondath (Trinidad-Canada) Man as Plaything, Life as Mockery (story)Dionne Brand (Trinidad-Canada) Return (poem) Amelia (poem)Edward Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados) Red Rising (poem)Dennis Brutus (South Africa) By the Waters of Babylon (poem)Buhkwujjenene (Canada) Nanaboozhoo Creates the World (folk tale)Willi Chen (Trinidad) Assam's Iron Chest (story)Marlyn Chin (Hong Kong-USA) Elegy for Chloe Nguyen (1955-1988) (poem)Austin Clarke (Barbados-Canada) The Man (story)Wilkie Collins (UK) A Sermon for Sepoys (essay)Saros Cowasjee (India-Canada) His Father's Medals (story)Rienzi Crusz (Sri Lanka-Canada) Roots (poem) In the Idiom of the Sun (poem)Fred D'Aguiar (Guyana-UK) Home (poem) A Son in Shadow (Memoir/Essay)Cyril Dabydeen (Guyana-Canada) Mother (poem)David Dabydeen (Guyana-UK) Catching Crabs (poem) The New Poetry (poem)Kamala Das (India) An Introduction (poem) The Looking Glass (poem)Jack Davis (Australia) White Fantasy—Black Fact (story) Pay Back (story)Anita Desai (India) Surface Textures (story)Eunice de Souza (India) Catholic Mother (poem) Return (poem)Nissim Ezekiel (India) In India (poem)Lorna Goodison (Jamaica) Survivor (poem) Lesson Learned from the Royal Primer (poem)Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet? (story)Jessica Hagedorn (Philippines-USA) The Song of Bullets (poem)Kaiser Haq (Bangladesh) Strange Pleasures (poem)Claire Harris (Trinidad-Canada) Backstage at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary (poem) Death in Summer (poem)Wilson Harris (Guyana-UK) Kanaima (story)Bessie Head (South Africa) The Collector of Treasures (story)A. D. Hope (Australia) Man Friday (poem)Nalo Hopkinson (Caribbean-Canada) A Habit of Waste (story)Keri Hulme (New Zealand) Hooks and Feelers' (story)Witi Ihimaera (New Zealand) This Life Is Weary (story)Sally Ito (Canada) Sisters of the Modern Mind (poem)Arnold Itwaru (Guyana-Canada) arrival (poem) roomer (poem) separate ways (poem)Eva Johnson (Australia) Murras (Hands) (play)Pauline Johnson (Canada) The Cattle Thief (poem)Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua-USA) On Seeing England for the First Time (essay)Thomas King (Canada) A Coyote Columbus Story (story)Rudyard Kipling (UK) The White Man's Burden (poem) Ernest Crosby (USA): The Real "White Man’s Burden" (poem)Joy Kogawa (Canada) What Do I Remember of the Evacuation (poem) When I Was a Little Girl (poem)Alex La Guma (South Africa) A Matter of Taste (story)Fiona Tinwei Lam (Canada) The Hyphenated (poem)Shirley Geok-lin Lim (Malaysia-USA) Ah Mah (poem) Passports (poem)Jayanta Mahapatra (India) The Abandoned British Cemetery at Balasore (poem) Freedom (poem) The Portrait (poem)Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand-UK) The Garden Party (story)Lee Maracle (Canada) Charlie (story)Dambudzo Marechera (Zimbabwe) Black Skin What Mask (story)Sharon May (Iran-USA) The Wizard of Khao-I-Dang (story)Pauline Melville (Guyana-UK) McGregor's Journey (story)Sudesh Mishra (Fiji) Mt. Abu: St. Xavier's Church (poem) The Grand Imperial Hotel (poem)Rohinton Mistry (India-Canada) Swimming Lessons (story)Timothy Mo (Hong Kong-UK) One of Billy's Boys: A Memoir (essay)Toshio Mori (USA) Slant-Eyed Americans (story)Mervyn Morris (Jamaica) To an Expatriate Friend (poem) Little Boy Crying (poem)Es'kia Mphahlele (South Africa) The Coffee-Cart Girl (story)Bharati Mukherjee (India-USA) Hindus (story)Gerald Murnane (Australia) Land Deal (story)V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad-UK) B. Wordsworth (story) Jasmine (essay)R. K. Narayan (India) Mother and Son (story)Mudrooroo Narogin (Australia) They Give Jacky Rights (poem)Njabulo S. Ndebele (South Africa) Guilt and Atonement: Unmasking History for the Future (essay)Ngitji Ngitji (Mona Tur; Australia) The Possum Woman (story)Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (Kenya) Goodbye Africa (story)Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Australia) Gooboora, the Silent Pool (poem) The Past (poem)Gabriel Okara (Nigeria) The Snowflakes Sail Gently Down (poem)Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka-Canada) Light (poem)Sasenarine Persaud (Guyana-Canada) Gifting the Light of the Soul (poem)M. Nourbese Philip (Trinidad-Canada) Sprung Rhythm (poem)Caryl Phillips (Caribbean-UK) Out of Africa: The Case Against Conrad (essay)Sharon Pollock (Canada) The Komogata Maru Incident (play)Jean Rhys (Dominica-UK) I Used to Live Here Once (story)Kevin Roberts (Australia-Canada) Mah Fung (poem)Salman Rushdie (India-UK) "Commonwealth Literature" Does Not Exist (essay) Outside the Whale (essay)F. R. Scott (Canada) To the Poets of India (poem) All the Spikes but the Last (poem)Samuel Selvon (Trinidad-UK-Canada) Turning Christian (story)Olive Senior (Jamaica) The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream (story)Vikram Seth (India) Research in Jiangsu Province (poem)Philip Sherlock (Jamaica) The Warau People Discover the Earth (folk tale)Janice Shinebourne (Guyana-UK) Red Bean Cakes: New York and London (memoir)Leslie Marmon Silko (USA) Yellow Woman (story)Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) Chimes of Silence (poem)Subramani (Fiji) Sautu (story)Mary TallMountain (USA) There is No Word for Goodbye (poem)Edwin Thumboo (Singapore) Ulysses by the Merlion (poem)Alatina Vuki (Fiji) Four-Year Wisdom (poem)Fred Wah (Canada) from Breathin' My Name with a Sigh (poem)Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) Ruins of a Great House (poem) A Letter from Brooklyn (poem) Midsummer LII (poem)Archie Weller (Australia) Pension Day (story)Albert Wendt (Western Samoa-New Zealand) Crocodile (story)Rudy Wiebe (Canada) Where is the Voice Coming From (story)May Wong (Singapore) The Shroud (poem)Arthur Yap (Singapore) 2 Mothers in a HDB Playground (poem)

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